spurs lose to aston villa, and have now won only two of their past seven matches. good morning. and happy new year. today is a cold start for many. it will be a sunny one when we lose the showers. the outlook for the rest of the week remains fairly changeable. details later in the programme. good morning. it s monday, january 2nd. senior doctors are warning that some a&e departments are in a complete state of crisis because of the extreme pressures facing the nhs this winter. the royal college of emergency medicine says it s impossible to provide the best standard of care, and there is no doubt that patients are being harmed. louisa pilbeam has the details. patients lying in a&e corridors. .ambulance delays, and staff who say they re at breaking point, and surging flu cases, all at a critical time for the nhs. the diagnosis from a leading emergency care doctor? unless there s more investment in services, patients are at risk. there is no doubt that when we are trying to tre
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after school and buy stuff. i help my mum a lot with emotional support, because it s hard on her as well. 13 year old elise helps care for her mum, liz, who has reactive arthritis and adrenal insufficiency. elise s dad works six days a week as a delivery driver, so the family have to rely on elise to help. i think she s just something else, and she does it with good humour all the time. she s a teenager and she should be grumpy with me. and, yeah, there are grumpy moments, but nothing like you would think. and she just will say, yeah, no problem, go and do it. but i feel so guilty that i have to ask her to do these things. for elise, looking after her mom is almost a full time job on top of her schooling. her daily responsibilities are very different from her peers. i m proud of what i do. but kids don t understand how lucky they are. like, i wish i could go out.
sorry! i wish i could go out and have a day with my mum. and do all that stuff, because you don t realize how lucky you are until one day, like that, someone s ill. they are a very close family. other support comes from a local charity. those using the center said it helps spending time with other kids who have similar duties at home. it s made a difference of me being more confident in myi social skill and physical skill. some of the young people here told me it took time to realize they d taken on a caring role. i didn t know i was a young carer when i was helping my mum last year, because my mum had a stroke, and then me and my dad just hadn t. when she came back home in december, my dad was struggling at first. so i helped them, and i ve been here ever since.
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